Madagascar

Madagascar (mg)

N Madagascsar, Province of Antsiranana (Diego Suarez), route from Antsiranana to Ramena, c. 5 km south of Ramena

fl

D. Du Puy

Lewis G., Schrire B.

m 575

92-12-2

12

12° 16' 59.988'' S ; 49° 21' 0'' E

-12.28333 ; 49.35

Small deciduous tree c. 4 m tall, with some young foliage; DBH c. 10 cm; bark pale grey with shallow vertical fissures; twigs grey with raised pale whitish lenticels and large resting buds. Leaves with 3-5 pairs of leaflets, leaflets bright glossy green above, paler with raised, straight veins beneath, nochted apically, the pulvinules and rachis with yellow-brown hairs. Flowers fuchsia pink fading to lilac, the standard with a white an d pale irregular basal blotch, c. 15 mm long. Calyx deep wine purple, with 3 long, apicular lower teeth, the upper teeth very small and distantly spaced. The colour change from pink to lilac is very noticeable, and whole inflorescences change together, giving a bicoloured appearance. Young fruits green. Old fruits and seeds fallen around the tree. Seeds 1 or 2 per pod, subsphericak, black, matt, with a small white illum

flowers visited by large black and yellow bees